I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
If we had in this room a hundred teachers good teachers from good schools and asked them to define the word education there would be very little general agreement.
If you improve education by teaching for competence eliminating schooling and connecting with students the test scores will improve.
Education commences at the mother's knee and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
I pledge to you today that as president in my first budget I will introduce the largest increase in special education ever.
When I was in school my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
I ain't got much education but I got some sense.
When I was four years old my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there and it will last forever.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Poor people people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I think that anybody that stays in school gets good grades pays the price I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education they should be able to do that.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Education is not so important as people think.
The formal education that I received made little sense to me.
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity and there really was no judgment.
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
I belong to the generation of workers who born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.
You know in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French Swiss German and basically I got laughed at. I had education I had experience but got laughed at because I was American.
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry in great plainness of living in exact modesty of dress.
Prejudices it is well known are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there firm as weeds among stones.
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.